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P43533A
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Biology
Unit: 4BI0
Paper: 2BR
Monday 16 June 2014 – Morning
Time: 1 hour 4BI0/2BR
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Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
Answer all questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
Show all the steps in any calculations and state the units.
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change
your mind about an answer, put a line through the box and then mark
your new answer with a cross .
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The total mark for this paper is 60.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
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Write your answers neatly and in good English.
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Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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Answer ALL questions.
1 Read the passage below. Use the information in the passage and your own
knowledge to answer the questions that follow.
Red and Grey Squirrels
(Photographer: Matti Parkkonen)
Red squirrels live in pine tree habitats in the United Kingdom (UK) where their
main predators are birds of prey such as the goshawk. The squirrels mainly eat
pine cone seeds. This food is plentiful in the autumn and helps the squirrels
increase their body mass. Having a larger body mass helps red squirrels to
survive the cold winter conditions. It also means that breeding females are in
good condition to produce young in the spring.
Red squirrels were common in the UK until a different species, the grey
squirrel, was introduced from America in 1876. The two species struggled to
exist in the same woodland habitat and it is the red squirrel population that
is decreasing. There are estimated to be only 140000 red squirrels left
in the UK, and 2.5 million grey squirrels. The spread of the grey squirrel has
been rapid, and in some areas native red squirrels are no longer seen.
The grey squirrel outcompetes the red squirrel and there is some evidence
that it is also more resistant to disease. The increase in the number of grey
squirrels in the UK is having a harmful effect on other native communities
where the plants and animals are poorly adapted to withstand their presence.
The grey squirrels are causing significant harm to woodland habitats, and
recent scientific studies have reported that they are having a serious effect
on the number of native woodland birds.
The Forestry Commission is an organisation in the UK trying to develop a
long-term conservation strategy to save the red squirrel from extinction.
It is hoped that this work will help to restore the UK’s native biodiversity.
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(a) Name a secondary consumer in a food chain containing red squirrels.
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(b) Suggest how a larger body mass helps squirrels survive the cold winter
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(c) Suggest two reasons why it is an advantage for red squirrels to produce young in
the spring (line 6).
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(d) (i) What is meant by the term habitat (line 9)?
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(ii) What is meant by the term population (line 9)?
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(e) Use the data in the passage to calculate the percentage of all the squirrels in the
UK that are red. Show your working.
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(f) Give two possible reasons why grey squirrels are increasing in number compared
to red squirrels.
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(g) Grey squirrels have a greater effect on the number of woodland birds than red
squirrels (lines 17 to 19).
Suggest how scientists could collect data to support this hypothesis.
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(h) Suggest two methods the Forestry Commission might use to save the red squirrel
from extinction (line 21).
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(Total for Question 1 = 16 marks)

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2 (a) The table lists some processes used in plant reproduction.
In each box, place a tick ( ) if the process helps to produce offspring with genetic
variation, or a cross ( ) if it produces offspring with no genetic variation. The first
one has been done for you.
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Process
Genetic variation
in offspring
runners producing new plants
micropropagation
wind-pollination
taking cuttings
self-pollination of a flower
(b) The photograph shows an eight-celled human embryo produced in human
reproduction.
Describe the events that take place at fertilisation and up to the production of the
eight-celled human embryo.
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3 Flowering plants can respond to their environment through tropic responses. These
involve root or shoot tips growing towards or away from a stimulus.
A student set up an experiment to investigate how shoots respond to gravity.
He placed a potted plant on its side and looked at its growth after 5 days. The
diagram shows what he saw.
(a) (i) Explain the benefit to the plant of this response.
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(ii) Give one variable that the student should keep the same in his experiment
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(iii) Suggest a suitable control for this experiment.
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(b) Plants can respond to drought by closing their stomata.
(i) Suggest how a plant benefits from closing its stomata when less water is
available in the soil.
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(ii) Explain the disadvantages to the plant of closing its stomata.
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4 A student wants to investigate the effect of secretions (juice) from the pancreas on
the digestion of protein.
The white of an egg is put into fifteen 50 mm long capillary tubes. The tubes are
placed in boiling water for 10 minutes until the egg white becomes solid. The
diagram shows one of the tubes filled with solid egg white.
The fifteen tubes are put into three groups of five.
five tubes are placed in a beaker of distilled water
five tubes are placed into a beaker of juice from the pancreas
five tubes are placed into a beaker of juice from the pancreas that has been boiled
After three hours the length of the boiled egg white in each tube is measured in mm.
The results are shown in the table.
Length of boiled egg white after three hours in mm
Distilled water
Juice
from
the pancreas
Boiled juice
from
the pancreas
50 14 50
50 12 50
50 13 50
50 14 50
50 14 50
(a) (i) Give the dependent variable in this experiment.
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(ii) Give two reasons why the results obtained by the student are reliable.
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(iii) Suggest how the student can obtain precise measurements of length.
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(b) (i) Explain the difference in the results obtained in distilled water compared to
juice from the pancreas.
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(ii) Explain the difference in the results obtained in pancreas juice compared to
boiled juice from the pancreas.
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(c) Suggest how you could modify this investigation to find out the effect of pH on
protein digestion by pancreas juice.
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(Total for Question 4 = 10 marks)

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5 Insulin is an important hormone.
(a) Name the organ that produces insulin.
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(b) State the role of insulin in the body.
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(c) (i) Describe how bacteria can be genetically modified to produce human insulin.
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(ii) The term that best describes bacteria that have been genetically modified to
produce human insulin is
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A antibiotic
B aseptic
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(d) The diagram shows part of a fermenter used to grow large numbers of genetically
modified bacteria.
(i) Suggest how the air inlet helps the genetically modified bacteria to grow.
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(ii) If the pH probe stops working the pH in the fermenter becomes more acidic.
Describe and explain how this affects the production of human insulin.
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(Total for Question 5 = 15 marks)
sterile nutrient
medium
stirrer
oxygen
concentration probe
cooling jacket
cold water inlet
cold water
outlet
temperature probe
pH probe
air inlet
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6 Some types of algae are microscopic organisms that can carry out photosynthesis.
They produce most of their biomass as fats and oils. If these algae could be grown
in large numbers it might help to solve the world’s energy crisis because the fats and
oils could be turned into biofuel.
Describe and explain the conditions needed to successfully grow large numbers of
algae.
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(Total for Question 6 = 5 marks)
TOTAL FOR PAPER = 60 MARKS